Detection of bacillus galmette-guérin (mycobacterium bovis BCG) DNA in urine and blood specimens after intravesical immunotherapy for bladder carcinoma

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1206-1208

  Siatelis, Argyrios ^a   Houhoula, Dimitra P ^b   Papaparaskevas, Joseph ^b   Delakas, Dimitrios ^a   Tsakris, Athanassios ^b  

^a Internal Medicine and Diabetes Outpatient Clinic   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BCG VACCINE;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLADDER; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DYSURIA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MYALGIA; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIDE EFFECT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TISSUE; URINALYSIS; URINARY FREQUENCY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD; CARCINOMA; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; DNA PRIMERS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; URINE;

MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS BCG; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 79953907313     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01595-10     Document Type: Article

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